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Cool Teacher · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

Look at this TV!

Wacky plot!
Rolling Eyes

Words all over the screen! Rolling Eyes

Japanese staring at the Gaijin! Rolling Eyes

Scaredy cat cops! Rolling Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHjvoHgQSvA&feature=related

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Hilarious!

Thanks Cool Teacher. That video gets five stars.

Regards,
fat_chris

womblingfree · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 826

Hang on, most TV in every country is appalling. Don't see that Japanese TV's any different.

There were a few shows I liked, Densha Otoko, Matthew's Best of TV and London Hearts were all pretty good. It's just a matter of knowing when the good stuff's on.

NHK's output's not too bad sometimes. Don't forget all that anime as well, that seems to be the reason half the eikaiwa teachers in Japan are here in the first place! Wink

I still don't get those shows that go on for hours and hours involving many celebrities doing commentary, games, comedy and appearing in the top-left of the screen during the outside braoadcast bits. They are weird. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they appear in the West before too long. Half the stuff we think's weird from overseas comes to our shores soon enough, where it becomes like part of the furniture.

bluetortilla · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 815 Location: Henan

I just jumped in here at the headline and thought, "Isn't TV insipid everywhere in the world? I've been to quite a few countries and this has always borne itself out to be true.
So what were you doing watching that TV show in the first place? Ne, sou darou.. Razz

cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Every now and again I try to force myself to sit through a bit of it under the pretence of improving my listening. I usually last just a couple of minutes unless the documentary in the midst of all the variety cr&p is really interesting.

I'm planning to start renting movies instead. I can generally handle anything with a beginning, middle and end, though I was left a little lost (not to mention freaked out) when I watched 'Juon'.

bluetortilla · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 815 Location: Henan

Kurosawa is awesome- one of the greatest directors/screenplayists of all time imo. His 'modern sets' are easier to understand than his classic ones. I don't know if DVD's in Japan would have English subtitle options- they just might- but if you can rip a DVD you can easily get subtitles for it on the net.

ShioriEigoKyoushi · Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 364 Location: Japan

cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Last night I was watching a documentary about some American kid who was possessed with the spirit of a dead WW2 pilot. It was really interesting. Then, just as I was really getting into it, straining hard to understand the Japanese .... guess what?

They cut to the douche bags! Crying or Very sad

I had to enjure ten minutes of meaningless 'umming' and 'ahhing' from various unfamous dumb models and unfunny comedians. Oh my God. Thankfully, after a couple of ad breaks they finally went back to the program, where they visited the kid ten years later and found out the thrilling news that he didn't remember anything about it. Then it cut back to the douche bags. So I turned it off.

I did watch another program a couple of nights ago where they took these really ugly people and gave them plastic surgury. They turned this dorky, buck-toothed girl into this real honey, so that was fun to see, except for the usual irritating studio guests. I have to marvel at the lax morals of Japanese TV though. Its great but they'd never be allowed to do stuff like that in England. They take makeovers to a new level. Genius. Razz

flyer · Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 539 Location: Sapporo Japan

yes, this sort of "douche bags" thing is quite common isn't it?

totally unnecessary IMO

bluetortilla · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 815 Location: Henan

cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Don't get me wrong, its nice and all to have a bit of eye candy on the TV from time to time, I just don't see the use of it all. Why not show the documentary as a stand alone program and cut out all the rubbish? Save that stuff up and leave it for Saturday nights when anyone with a life is out at karaoke or somewhere.

bluetortilla · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 815 Location: Henan

Well, how could they see all that rubbish if they were out at karaoke? Not that karaoke isn't rubbish itself, lol. Ah, modern culture. It can't be that wacky, can it? Then again, yes, it is!

monkeyhero · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 14

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Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I think we should give credit where due in US TV...when you have a selection of 300 cable or satellite channels, you can find some gems...The Sopranos had no equal and I wish it could have gone on forever. That's why it's very popular even in Britain. Lots of other good stuff, mostly from uncensored cable networks such as HBO (Sopranos producer), Showtime, etc.

As for Japanese TV--I was in Japan 1988-92. At that time virtually all there was to be seen on the airwaves was cutesy girls acting like three-year-olds (or baring their bosoms). You could surf their 7 to 9 channels and literally just flick from one commercial to another, and each one was the same no matter what the product was--some cutesy girl acting all cutesy and giggling. And the shows--so much sexist stuff, with naked bosoms jiggling everywhere (or, alternately, high school girls beating up gangsters). One show actually had women step up to scales and weigh their bosoms for a compare/contrast session. I'm not making that up; I taped it. (I'll be the first to admit I didn't mind looking at beautiful half-naked women.)

Is the TV still like that, or is it just male douchbags now?[/i]